DENMARK MOBILE STUDY
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLINITIAL results from the world's largest ever study into whether mobile phone use causes cancer suggest that the technology is safe. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) says that research carried out in Denmark, forming part of the global INTERPHONE study, has concluded: "Use of a cell phone for 10 years or more did not increase acoustic neuroma risk over that of short term users. Furthermore, tumours did not occur more frequently on the side of the head on which the telephone was typically used." INTERPHONE is examining 8,000 ...
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